From a6b8c29fb8fce8f063a4709ce0df3f862b316b95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexey Brodkin Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 18:44:05 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] iot_dk: Add README Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin --- board/synopsys/iot_devkit/README | 145 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 145 insertions(+) create mode 100644 board/synopsys/iot_devkit/README diff --git a/board/synopsys/iot_devkit/README b/board/synopsys/iot_devkit/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..20c140d93c --- /dev/null +++ b/board/synopsys/iot_devkit/README @@ -0,0 +1,145 @@ +================================================================================ +Useful notes on bulding and using of U-Boot on +ARC IoT Development Kit (AKA IoTDK) +================================================================================ + + BOARD OVERVIEW + + The DesignWare ARC IoT Development Kit is a versatile platform that includes + the necessary hardware and software to accelerate software development and + debugging of sensor fusion, voice recognition and face detection designs. + + The ARC IoT Development Kit includes a silicon implementation of the + ARC Data Fusion IP Subsystem running at 144 MHz on SMIC's + 55-nm ultra-low power process, and a rich set of peripherals commonly used + in IoT designs such as USB, UART, SPI, I2C, PWM, SDIO and ADCs. + + The board is shipped with pre-installed U-Boot in non-volatile memory + (eFlash) so on power-on user sees U-Boot start header and command line + prompt which might be used for U-Boot environment fine-tuning, manual + loading and execution of user application binaries etc. + + The board has the following features useful for U-Boot: + * On-board 2-channel FTDI TTL-to-USB converter + - The first channel is used for serial debug port (which makes it possible + to use a serial connection on pretty much any host machine be it + Windows, Linux or Mac). + On Linux machine typucally FTDI serial port would be /dev/ttyUSB0. + There's no HW flow-control and baud-rate is 115200. + + - The second channel is used for built-in Digilent USB JTAG probe. + That means no extra hardware is required to access ARC core from a + debugger on development host. Both proprietary MetaWare debugger and + open source OpenOCD + GDB client are supported. + + - Also with help of this FTDI chip it is possible to reset entire + board with help of a special `rff-ftdi-reset` utility, see: + https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/rff-ftdi-reset + + * Micro SD-card slot + - U-Boot expects to see the very first partition on the card formatted as + FAT file-system and uses it for keeping its environment in `uboot.env` + file. Note uboot.env is not just a text file but it is auto-generated + file created by U-Boot on invocation of `saveenv` command. + It contains a checksum which makes this saved environment invalid in + case of maual modification. + + - There might be more useful files on that first FAT partition like + user applications, data files etc. + + * USB OTG connector + - U-Boot may access USB mass-storage devices attached to this connector. + Note only FAT file-system is supported. It might be used for storing + user application binaries as well as micro SD-card mentioned above. + + * The following memories are avaialble on the board: + - eFlash: 256 KiB @ 0x0000_0000 + A non-volatile memory from which ARC core may execute code directly. + Still is is not direcly writable, thus this is not an ordinary RAM. + + - ICCM: 256 KiB @ 0x2000_0000 + Instruction Closely Coupled Memory - fast on-chip memory primary used + for code being executed, still data could be placed in this memory too. + In that sense it's just a general purpose RAM. + + - SRAM: 128 KiB @ 0x3000_0000 + On-chip SRAM. From user perspective is the same as ICCM above. + + - DCCM: 128 KiB @ 0x8000_0000 + Data Closely Coupled Memory is similar to ICCM with a major difference - + ARC core cannot execute code from DCCM. So this is very special RAM + only suitable for data. + + BUILDING U-BOOT + + 1. Configure U-Boot: + ------------------------->8---------------------- + make iot_devkit_defconfig + ------------------------->8---------------------- + + 2. To build Elf file (for example to be used with host debugger via JTAG + connection to the target board): + ------------------------->8---------------------- + make mdbtrick + ------------------------->8---------------------- + + This will produce `u-boot` Elf file. + + 3. To build binary image to be put in "ROM": + ------------------------->8---------------------- + make u-boot.bin + ------------------------->8---------------------- + + + EXECUTING U-BOOT + + 1. The IoTDK board is supposed to auto-start U-Boot image stored in eFlash on + power-on. Note it's possible to update that image - follow instructions in + user's manual. + + 2. Though it is possible to load and start U-Boot as a simple Elf file + via JTAG right in ICCM. For that it's required to re-configure U-Boot + so it gets linked to ICCM address 0x2000_0000 (remember eFlash is not + direcly writable). + Run U-Boot's configuration utility with "make menuconfig", go to + "Boot images" and change "Text Base" from default 0x00000000 to + 0x20000000. Exit & save new configuration. Now run "make mdbtrick" to + build new Elf. + + 2.1. In case of proprietary MetaWare debugger run: + ------------------------->8---------------------- + mdb -digilent u-boot + ------------------------->8---------------------- + + USING U-BOOT + + Note due to limited memory size it's supposed that user will run binary + images of their applications instead of loading Elf files. + + 1. To load and start application binary from micro SD-card execute + the following commands in U-Boot's shell: + ------------------------->8---------------------- + fatload mmc 0 0x20000000 yourapp.bin + go 0x20000000 + ------------------------->8---------------------- + + 2. To load and start application binary from USB mass-storage device execute + the following commands in U-Boot's shell: + ------------------------->8---------------------- + usb start + fatload usb 0x20000000 yourapp.bin + go 0x20000000 + ------------------------->8---------------------- + + 3. To have a sequence of commands executed on U-Boot start put those + commands in "bootcmd" with semicolon between them. + For example to get (1) done automatically: + ------------------------->8---------------------- + setenv bootcmd fatload mmc 0 0x20000000 yourapp.bin\; go 0x20000000 + saveenv + ------------------------->8---------------------- + + 4. To reboot the board just run: + ------------------------->8---------------------- + reset + ------------------------->8---------------------- -- 2.39.5